Too Late, Too Soon

Too Late, Too Soon

Jini Kim Watson

Publisher:

University of Minnesota Press

DOI:10.5749/minnesota/9780816675722.003.0011

This chapter summarizes the cultural texts on the colonialism, globalization, modernity, and urban history of Singapore, South Korea, and Taiwan. It looks at fictional texts that reflect on new infrastructure that give rise to wholly new ways of conceiving the social landscape, communities, and futurity, and stresses the importance of addressing the psychic and symbolic energies that adhere to material forms of development. The chapter concludes with an analysis of recent Asian miracles that materialized in the rising megastates of China and India, focusing on their emergence as economic powers in terms of simple neoliberal or evolutionary development.

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